Madras
#473e23
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#473e23
RGB
71, 62, 35
OKLCh
36.6% 0.044 91.6°
CIELAB (D50)
26.6, 0.8, 18.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.6; on black, Lc -8.0. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.3 and 5.3 and 9.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.60:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.98:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.60:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#473e23
protanopia
#3f3f23 · ΔE00 5.3
deuteranopia
#414123 · ΔE00 5.3
tritanopia
#434300 · ΔE00 9.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLisbon Brown at ΔE00 1.895: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Lisbon BrownΔE00 1.895 · #423921
- OnionΔE00 2.251 · #48412b
- Scorched MetalΔE00 2.818 · #423d27
- WoodrushΔE00 3.073 · #45402b
- Strong Tone WashΔE00 3.145 · #454129
- Magic MetalΔE00 3.314 · #3f3925
- Flirtatious Indigo TeaΔE00 3.452 · #473f2d
- LeChuck’s BeardΔE00 3.502 · #3c351f
- Typhus CorrosionΔE00 3.51 · #463d2b
- Avocado StoneΔE00 3.738 · #4e3e1f
- Pullman GreenΔE00 3.796 · #3b331c
- Lebanon CedarΔE00 3.822 · #3c341f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.